Holiday cheer

Every year Tryst & XS, where Tony and I work, donates money to the KLUC toy drive, this year we raised $172k!! The day of the toy drive, all of the staff go to Walmart and fill up shopping cart after shopping cart with toys. The toy aisle shelves are seriously empty! This year was so fun because Scarlett got to participate. This was like a dream come true for her. For once in her life she got to take every. single. toy. off the shelves. It was a great day for me also to see her picking out toys for other less fortunate kids <3 This year was also fun to have Tony's mom come with us to help. Over the past few years, Tryst & XS have donated so much money to the toy drive that the mayor declared Dec. 5th Tryst & XS day! Its so nice to work for such an amazing company!

Never ending line of all of the shopping carts filled with toys!

Fascinated by a bagel

 We also were able to get in the holiday spirit a little early this year because tony's sissy is having her baby December 18th (tomorrow! Happy Baby day Angela!) & his family will be in Chicago with her for Christmas, so we had Christmas at our house last week. Tonys other sis Jenny and her boyfriend and his mom and dad all came over for games, din din and a gingerbread house competition. 

 Starting from the left: mine & Tonys Tonys parents (the winners) & Jenny and Miahs. We had 30 minutes to complete our houses. In those 30 minutes of course Scarlett wanted to be held, so Tony the perfectionist made most of our house. It looks beautiful but he went so slow to make it perfect that it looks a little bare :( But still perfect!

What we've been doing lately... Park dates. Scarlett & I usually go to the park everyday. She loves being outside and we always have fun. She makes this face below when I am counting 1..2..3... to push her on the swings. It cracks me up everytime. 

little angel